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An ambulance bus, medical ambulance bus, AmBus, AmbuBus〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ambubus.com )〕 or MAB is a type of ambulance used to transport and treat multiple patients who require ambulance-level care. Ambulance buses have been used for a number of different purposes, including mass casualty incident response, disaster response, offering on-site triage, surge capacity, testing hospital preparedness, firefighter rehabilitation, hospital evacuation, rest home (nursing home) evacuation, taking patients on routine journeys (such as holidays) for care-dependent or wheelchair-bound patients, or to deal with specific problems such as drunken patients in town centres.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ambulance crews prepare for party night pressure )〕 Ambulance buses can also be used to prevent health crises by providing mobile care during marathons/events or providing a respite from the heat and preventing heat exhaustion on hot days. ==Mass casualty/evacuation use== In the event of a major disaster or evacuation, ambulance buses can be used to transport high volumes of patients or evacuate non-ambulatory patients from hospitals and nursing homes to care centers out of harm's way. Critical care transport and Advanced Life Support systems are integrated into each vehicle to accommodate the needs of patients requiring constant intensive care. Ambulance buses can be deployed to major incidents, where multiple patients are present or expected, and can be used in two main ways: # Ambulance buses can act in a stationary capacity as a casualty clearing station, field hospital, or treatment center. The units can be dispatched in advance of large events or festivals or in response to emergency events. # Ambulance buses can be used to transport multiple stretcher- or wheelchair-bound patients from the scene to the next definitive point of care. Again, units can be used in advance of eminent danger (like the evacuation of a hospital in the path of a hurricane) or as a response to an emergency (like when evacuating a nursing home that fills with smoke or to transport a large number of patients in a large-scale highway accident). Traditional ambulance buses are designed from the ground up to handle the increased demands of multi-patient treatment and transportation. They are built with the intention of providing the closet resembleace to a mobile hospital and often include large amounts of medical equipment. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ambulance bus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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